New York Times bestseller

A novel about the bonds formed between victims of catastrophe, Fearless is a brilliant portrait of trauma and its aftermath—the shock of loss and the sometimes unexpected ways that people learn to cope with disaster.

“A brilliant, thrilling page-turner full of intelligence and heart.” —Washington Post Book World

Rome Prize–winning author

This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by 92-year-old Joseph Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were everyday events.

“Evokes a bygone era and an earlier pandemic.... An affecting turn in [his] long career." —Publishers Weekly

In Empire Rising, his extraordinary third book, Thomas Kelly tells a story of love and work, of intrigue and jealousy, set during the race to finish the world's tallest building.

"An audacious and compelling narrative by a master storyteller: tough, tender, and beautifully imagined, this intensely American tale is universal in its scope." —Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea

An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.

"Hood’s novel is rich with pleasures, and will no doubt launch a thousand book club discussions." ―USA Today

The Daily Jane Austen will amuse and inspire skeptical beginners, Janeite experts, and every reader in between by showcasing some of the greatest sentences ever crafted in the history of fiction.

They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to reform it. To others, it was a gold mine. And for one man, a shootist and gambler named Luke Short, it was a place to make a stand.

"Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history." —Elmer Kelton, author of Cloudy in the West

Here, in this selection of Robert Coover's best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works.

“Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor.” —The New York Times Book Review

Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction

Jacob’s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America’s greatest war. 

"A gentle compelling story about such an ungentle time." ―Washington Post

A comic novel of ambition and infidelity in the suburbs by “the funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic” (Kingsley Amis, author of Lucky Jim).

"Entertaining in its insouciant parodies of high-flown writing and deadly portrayal of the pretensions of upscale intellectuals.” ―Washington Post